A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Condition:Well Read the beautiful farm where so

the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened

though she still longs for love and friendship

allegations of poisoning

Entranced by their beauty and mystery

Margaret Read MacDonald

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Condition:Well Read the beautiful farm where soBrilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling.